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Shortest Path Between All Continents (Kyle Vogt)(github.com)
1 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|1 comments
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by spencerwgreene 7y ago
People will start to wash their hands more, touch their faces less, and avoid sick people more because of checklists to avoid coronavirus that people are sharing online.
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Some 2020 Predictions(unpleasantfacts.com)
3 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|0 comments
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by spencerwgreene 7y ago
The WSJ updated the article this links to with the transaction price, $5.3 billion, "Visa to Pay $5.3 Billion for Fintech Startup." Maybe the HN title for this item should be updated?
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Look-and-Say Integer Sequence(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|0 comments
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DARPA Challenge: Using AI to Unlock the True Potential of the RF Spectrum(spectrumcollaborationchallenge.com)
6 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|0 comments
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by spencerwgreene 7y ago
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.11211 . Tweets: https://twitter.com/mark_ledwich/status/1210743158184693760 .
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Analysis of YouTube's political influence through recommendations(recfluence.net)
2 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|1 comments
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From 0 to 70% Market Share: How Google Chrome Ate the Internet(usefyi.com)
3 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|0 comments
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US Ambassador Suzi LeVine sworn in using Kindle e-reader (2014)(independent.co.uk)
1 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|0 comments
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Position Independent Code (PIC) in Shared Libraries(eli.thegreenplace.net)
1 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|0 comments
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by spencerwgreene 7y ago
> Founded in 2010, Stripe is middle-aged by Silicon Valley standards, but Mr. Gaybrick and Stripe president John Collison said it had no plans to go public. Why doesn't Stripe want to become a public company?
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Endless Horse(endless.horse)
2 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|0 comments
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by spencerwgreene 7y ago
If you had an equivalent Cheat Sheet for other programming languages (no programs or opinions), which language would look best?
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Problems with Bruce Schneier's “Solitaire” (2001)(ciphergoth.org)
1 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|0 comments
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by spencerwgreene 7y ago
Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02187 .
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Molecular thumb drives: Researchers store digital images in metabolite molecules(brown.edu)
1 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|1 comments
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Melting Asphalt: Ads Don't Work That Way(meltingasphalt.com)
1 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|1 comments
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Superhuman Email Blast(be.superhuman.com)
1 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|0 comments
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by spencerwgreene 7y ago
There are sentiments in this article that I think will mislead people into doing nothing with their lives. For example, > "Ambition for the more obvious and boring forms of power — political, financial — may not always be inherently
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Hacking College Admissions(d4stiny.github.io)
3 points by spencerwgreene 7y ago|0 comments
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by spencerwgreene 8y ago
Google Docs is already showing "Some tools might be unavailable due to heavy traffic in this file." I predict this posts hits 100 points and then it crashes. (Currently at 31.)
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Rust in Production at Figma(figma.com)
2 points by spencerwgreene 8y ago|0 comments
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Strong and Weak Technologies(cdixon.org)
4 points by spencerwgreene 8y ago|0 comments
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by spencerwgreene 8y ago
The author says, "That Go uses arbitrary-precision for constant expressions seems dangerous to me." Why? My thoughts: 1) more inefficient programs because encountering an arbitrary-precision expression requires arbitrarily large m
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by spencerwgreene 8y ago
This reminds me of the section "Money Is Not Wealth" from Paul Graham's How to Make Wealth [1]: "The solution societies find, as they get more specialized, is to make the trade into a two-step process. Instead of trading
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by spencerwgreene 8y ago
More broadly, I think this point touches on the idea that you cannot trust code that you did not write yourself. Ken Thompson's Turing Award speech talks about this ( https://www.archive.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall
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by spencerwgreene 8y ago
Have you tried Audible? Works great for me for the doing laundry, washing dishes, commuting, etc., modes.
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by spencerwgreene 8y ago
I traveled around Europe for a month recently with my phone in airplane mode the whole time (except when needing to call a taxi at 3:30am in Venice, Italy). In the first week I also found myself doing this. As long as technological progress